2011

July: The film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II is released. Various mainstream media outlets publish a number of accounts that reference HP fans and fan activity, including The Boy Who Lived Forever by Lev Grossman.

2012

2013

March 15: Starkid's "A Very Potter Senior Year" is released on Youtube. Reaches over 400,000 views that month.

September: J.K. Rowling announces that she is writing a film series based on Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. The story will be set 70 years before the events in the novels and will feature Newt Scamander.

December: Plans for a Harry Potter stage play are announced, with Rowling as a producer. The play is described as "the previously untold story of Harry Potter’s early years as an orphan and outcast."

2014

June/July: The "second phase" of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park opens to the public at Universal Studios Florida. In July, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter opens to the public at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka.